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Emily Pettit — EMILY PETTIT is a poet, artist, editor and teacher, and the author of Goat in the Snow & Blue Flame. She has taught and lectured at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts, Elms College, and Smith College. Emily is an editor for Factory Hollow Press and jubilat.

Alyssa Perry — ALYSSA PERRY lives in Cleveland and Iowa City. She teaches writing at Cleveland State University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, and serves as assistant editor with Rescue Press. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Poetry Northwest, West Branch Wired, and other journals.

Raja Freeman — RAJA FREEMAN is a performance poet, visual artist, and flautist. She has worked with Twelve Literary Arts as an intern, a member of the Six of Twelve Youth Performance Poetry Ensemble, and a two year member of the One Mic Open Youth Poetry Slam Team. She is currently a student at Cleveland State University and she hates writing bios.

Caryl Pagel — CARYL PAGEL is the author of the forthcoming book of prose Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2, fall 2020) as well as two collections of poetry, Twice Told (University of Akron reprint, 2019), and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death (Factory Hollow, 2012). Pagel is a co-founder and editor of Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She is an assistant professor at Cleveland State University, where she teaches poetry and nonfiction in the NEOMFA program.

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